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  1. My apologies. I don't know where, given his past behavior, I would think that Sammy is not a "team player". And my post was nonsense? Wow. The idea of team players in baseball is pure and utter conventional wisdom nonsense. EDIT - And what Chris said.
  2. OMG HE USED THE WORD 'I' LIKE A MILLION TIMES IN THAT QUOTE!!! HE'S NOT A TEAM PLAYERRRR!!!! Please. It's nonsense.
  3. Or Mark Grace. Otherwise, agreed, entirely.
  4. Are you serious? I mean, wanting the regulars to play because they're on TV is fine, but who cares what happens in this game? The fact that it's against the Sox doesn't make it anything more than a meaningless ST game. I just don't get it. Don't mean to jump on you, it's just a pet peeve of mine after hearing all these callers on the radio after the last game with them. I also think that any Sox fan who got any sense of satisfaction from winning the first meeting is severely lacking in IQ points.
  5. He was never really that good. Definitely not on Prior's level. Rick Ankiel is pretty much the classic example of this, although even he was never as good as Prior was in 2003.
  6. I like it. I'm really excited to see how Murton progresses this year. Hopefully, he'll get the PA's to do that.
  7. I agree. I think 50 is looking somewhat realistic.
  8. I really, really don't want to get my hopes up about having this same team - 1 Izturis & + 1 ARod next year.
  9. So, how many different ways can Keith Olbermann's name be butchered in this thread? :)
  10. Of course it doesn't. But that's not the point at all. ok, so what is the point? The doomsday predictors don't know as much as they think they know. I love how everything someone says that they think someone will be terrible, someone else shows up to say that they "might not". Really geniuses? You're telling me that there's a chance he might be bad, and also a chance he might be good. Well, gee, that sounds, almost like every other player in baseball. Marquis last year was as bad as Pujols was good. If you start a thread about how Pujols is going to be great this year, I'm not going to come in the thread and say "Yeah, but he might be bad too! You dont know as much as you think you do!" Exactly.
  11. Of course it doesn't. But that's not the point at all. ok, so what is the point? The doomsday predictors don't know as much as they think they know. That's fine. I'll keep going with the most likely outcome over the most optimistic one. Predictions can't always be spot on. You should only go with the best conclusion you can come to based on the data available. The fact remains that there will be outliers and sometimes, the best prediction doesn't wind up being right. That doesn't make it a bad prediction. Looking at a prediction in hindsight is completely pointless.
  12. Sarcasm? Who, me? Never.
  13. Irregardless is not modern English. It's just wrong. It's not slang, it's a mistake. Whoever says irregardless really means to say regardless. Morans.
  14. Did the Braves trade him at the best possible moment or what? I think Javy will probably wind up on an AL team where he can DH. I don't think he's much of a catcher anymore. The Braves didn't trade him. They did let him go at the right time, though.
  15. I get surprised by every picture I see of Marquis pitching. I always swear he's a left handed pitcher, he just seems like a lefty, ya know? Marquis reminds me of Estes, too. But it's got nothing to do with thinking that Marquis seems like a lefty.
  16. Tons of pitchers lose velocity. Is there something I'm not getting here, or is Prior delusional. Yeah, I agree but he says this: I don't recall Prior be as low as 81 mph. That's probably because we didn't see nor hear anything about that. I do recall him being in the mid-80's in his minor league rehab starts, and just barely touching 90 in his first couple starts once he came up. It's encouraging as far as his velocity. Let's just hope he can locate better than he did last year and get his breaking stuff back.
  17. You're right. He's a crappy baseball player who happens to be in the Major Leagues (much like Neifi Perez, Rey Rnez, and many others before them). And there's a reason why those men are playing "slow pitch" softball. Fixed.
  18. Vance, I vehemently disagree. I concur, although, I have to admit, I am a little less worried about Prior because of Gooz's encouraging spring.
  19. Well, either way. If Angel really can pitch the way he's shown he's capable of, it really will make anything from Prior gravy. I know people were saying that Prior's contributions would be gravy before Angel had really shown anything, but it just wasn't the case. We need another big starter to really make noise this year, and Gooz could be that guy.
  20. Please elaborate. Why the guy would say anything that would even insinuate something like this is about a teammate is beyond me.
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